Albert Young Quotations

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

But we had 500 or something total yards, so we're not about that.

I can't really play with Iowa too much, because you don't want to play using yourself. When you play using yourself, you try to get yourself the ball every play instead of trying to win it.

I think it's ideal, I like it. You can never have enough backs. Especially after last year.

Really, (the huddle) doesn't change. Not with us. Guys know we can get the job done. We don't ever get tight in there. That's probably because of the personalities in there. Regardless of what's going on, we have the confidence that we can get it done no matter what the circumstances.

It felt like every time I was running I didn't have a good base under me,

When you're in there, you know you've got to do something,

Three points, five turnovers, I don't think you could beat any college football team - I don't care what level it is - with that kind of performance. It's uncharacteristic of us, and that's what hurts the most.

When you're running the ball so successfully and getting a lot of five-, eight-, 12-yard gains, after a while that time starts to tick away. If we could do that every game, that would be ideal.

We're zero and zero, just like everybody else. We feel we have a pretty good team here, and we've got to keep doing the things we're doing.

We're not putting pressure on ourselves like this is a must, must win. (Because) then we're not playing relaxed and loose. We're playing tense.

There's some truth to that. With offense, there's a lot more timing involved and things like that. I would say defense comes along quicker, but that's not an excuse for us not to get our work done.

They all just piled up when I got here.

Sometimes, it's just guys trying to make an extra effort. We've got to be more careful. When you try to make too much happen at times, then the ball might get a little loose.

Priority number one is no secret -- it's to get the running game back. We know we have a good quarterback in Drew. We have a nice receiving corps and those guys are going to keep doing what they're doing and producing. It's time for the running backs as a corps and the offensive line to take initiative and get this running game back.

That's not how we play. Our number one goal every week is to win the turnover battle. We hear 'Protect the ball' every day in practice.

A lot of things are going through your head when the game's getting tight. We had to make a play. Let me tell you something, I don't want to walk out of this stadium with a loss.

It's tough to explain. We know we have a better offense than that.

It's tough to explain. We just couldn't finish. We'd get close down to their territory and they'd get a big sack. That would change the whole scheme of things. We know we have a better offense than that.

It's going to be a long film session for the defense to watch, ... I don't have to watch 101 plays. There was a point where it seemed like, 'Man, we haven't been out there in a while.'

Everybody's older. We do so much work against blitz pick-ups, so we're pretty confident about everything and Drew has a fast release.

He's steady. You're not going to see him taking any losses. He might not be as fast as all of us. I'll be honest with you, I don't know how he pulls it off and I ask him sometimes, but he gets yards and you can't be mad at that.

How can you post us No. 1? ... I don't really give too much merit to that because they don't know what they're talking about.

I don't pay too much attention to what the score was from their last game. They could've won by 50. (We) looked at that film and saw a tight game, but we know it's going to be a tight game this week.

Been like that all summer. We've got to keep that intact.

For one, we were putting (our defensive) guys in bad field position. And another thing, we weren't giving them any breaks. Those guys need to be able to go on the sidelines, catch their breath and regroup. When the offense is going three-and-out, it's like (the defense) has hardly been off the field.

And I saw how hard that was, ... I sure could have used instant replay for that.